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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 9/26/08

I'm the jerk who goes around shooting my own team.

Sketch will Bungie Pro be included with downloading the new maps like with the Legendary Map Pack?

  • 09.26.2008 10:59 PM PDT

Posted by: Mag00n
Posted by: SketchFactor

By the way, Did they spell your name wrong on G4tv? I thought it was Jarrard, not Girard...


Nice. I didn't know/never saw it... but it is far the from first time. You'd think a business card with your name on it AND signing a release form and filling out your information would be enough of a clue.


i love how bungie employees will take the time to respond to this worthless post but 100 people ask about the mythic pack and he wont say a word. LIke we care how you spell your name.
I want to beat you. That's not necessarily something he can elaborate on.

  • 09.26.2008 11:00 PM PDT

I'm the jerk who goes around shooting my own team.

Sketch will Bungie Pro be included with the new maps like with the Legendary Map Pack?

  • 09.26.2008 11:00 PM PDT

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Really sweet, I love how you can connect the pictures with the variants and I just need to get a bungie card, so baaaaaaaaaaaad.

btw 6600, hah, take that you boosting nubs, lolzorz.

  • 09.26.2008 11:03 PM PDT

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Posted by: SketchFactor

By the way, Did they spell your name wrong on G4tv? I thought it was Jarrard, not Girard...


Nice. I didn't know/never saw it... but it is far the from first time. You'd think a business card with your name on it AND signing a release form and filling out your information would be enough of a clue.

Was that for PAX? I never saw the G4TV re-run!

  • 09.26.2008 11:23 PM PDT

Ever since I was 17 years old, "My brother wants to play Halo" was reason enough to stop everything else I was doing.

I have to say, Halo 3 has always kind of meant a lot to me, because it was the last thing I ever did with my youngest brother. I came home from university to joyfully play the campaign together, since we'd played together since Halo: CE. Tragically, he was killed in an accident 4 days later.

But I'll always remember spending our last time together being buddies, playing the game we loved.

Thanks Bungie, for the memories.

  • 09.26.2008 11:26 PM PDT
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!@#$%^&*()_++_)(*&^%$#@! BUNGIE 4 LIFE +_)(*&^%$#@!@#$%^&*()_+

  • 09.26.2008 11:26 PM PDT

The Bungie cards are pretty damn cool.

  • 09.26.2008 11:28 PM PDT
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I must say, my most rememmorable moment happend tonight!
I am absolutely wasted and my buddy challenged me to beat his brother who had never lost a game of halo (offline) so i do it, comletely drunk abd without my glasses and i beat him, one on one 15 to 10. PPL where yelling and going absoltely nuts.

Thank you BUngie, without u, my friends woulnt call me "chief"

LOVE MArk

  • 09.26.2008 11:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: JimboMonkey1234
Posted by: Mag00n
Posted by: SketchFactor

By the way, Did they spell your name wrong on G4tv? I thought it was Jarrard, not Girard...


Nice. I didn't know/never saw it... but it is far the from first time. You'd think a business card with your name on it AND signing a release form and filling out your information would be enough of a clue.


i love how bungie employees will take the time to respond to this worthless post but 100 people ask about the mythic pack and he wont say a word. LIke we care how you spell your name.
I want to beat you. That's not necessarily something he can elaborate on.

why not? why the H E double hockey sticks not... it doesnt make sense... JUST TELL US BUNGIE.... if the reason you are not telling us is because its coming out tomorrow and you want it to be a surprise THAT IS OK but I SWEAR if it doesnt come out for a month or more and you dont tell me I AM GONNA BE PISSED... and you dont wanna see me when im angry

  • 09.26.2008 11:50 PM PDT

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  • 09.26.2008 11:54 PM PDT

:)

Nice Update.

  • 09.27.2008 12:01 AM PDT

Over 6,600 people banned already? I wonder if that's why I'm no longer seeing level 40 recruits in doubles.

  • 09.27.2008 12:17 AM PDT
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Posted by: stosh
My favorite memory:

Spawning a ton of pelicans into the multiplayer main menu screen because I wanted to see if I could get one to hit and kill the spartan or elite...

It so worked.



Pics or it didn't happen? Really that would be cool...

  • 09.27.2008 12:36 AM PDT

>>KEEP IT CLEAN<<

probably because they wan to keep somethings secret, reveal some tidbits, tantalize those who like tantalizing and tease those who are jerks.

btw, who cares if you're pissed?

  • 09.27.2008 12:37 AM PDT

good update

  • 09.27.2008 12:37 AM PDT

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

great game..........i remember being in middle school when halo:ce was out......my friends telling me about oh halo this halo that.....my first thought was a game of angels wtf?????who would play that....and of course i ditched school to go play at my friends house......the rest was history......complete masterpiece.....

halo king of games....

thanks bungie...

  • 09.27.2008 12:41 AM PDT

Posted by: ijimiji
Seriously though, thanks to everyone who gets it and is a positive force in our community.
seriously though, what's to get? is it that you choose to release a teaser that is far too vague to grasp any concrete info from and then say nothing about it, pretending to be holding some incredible secret? this is only a videogame. now i love halo as much as the next guy, and i can understand the need to glorify your creations (or in this case, your careers), but this constant tease of worthless tidbits is just ridiculous. just tell us all that you can about the things we want to know about (not how bungie employees spent their summer vacation or whatever this week's BS topic is) with a straightforward answer and people will sing your praises. instead, you choose to constantly jerk your fans around by ignoring the topics we want you talk about. remember bungie, we buy your games, so the least you could do is give us information without dangling tasty stuff in front of our faces and ripping it out of our grasp the second we reach out to touch it.

i mean no serious disrespect, but i'd think if you did a better job with these updates, you're community would be that much more appreciative and views like mine would never come up. flame me all you want, or simply ignore the message i have for you. i'm sure there are thousands upon thousands of other people who feel the same way i do about your weekly updates. worth thinking about it...


Bungie is successful because they make innovative, defining games, and they know how to run an extremely well-oiled hype machine. It's obviously done for a reason, and said machine has worked on countless others.

Including you. Let it rest, be a patient man.

That being said, let's move on to the main reason I'm posting.

Congratulations on the 1 year anniversary of Halo 3, Bungie. I may be a few days late, but hey, it's the 7hough7 that counts, am I right?

Seriously, all 7's aside, congratulations. You've made three genre-defining first person shooters, despite all the complaints you get from unappreciative players. When there's change, there's complaints, people get thrown out of the comfortable norm.

I can't say I've played ONI or the original Marathon games, because I haven't. Well, besides Durandal which I bought on the XBL Marketplace, but that's besides the point.

I started appreciating what you guys do when CE came out. In my opinion, that opened the door for other first person shooters on consoles. It took a genre - and perfected it. No other game or developer can say they've done that. In fact, no other game or developer can say they've made two highly popular trilogies. Marathon, of course, and the Halo series.

The Halo series has all connected us in some way, between the random "WTF UR A BK GTFO U SUK" and "lawl ur skill is 12", we're all connected, and we all share a love of these games. Everyone on Bungie.net, everyone who's ever bought one of the games, the books, the action figures, etc. We all have one thing in common.

Of course, that goes for any popular game series. But the difference is, our voice doesn't go unheard. Many developers would opt out when it comes to "customer relations" as they put it. The thing is though, Bungie..You, as developers, do what many other developers consider to be equal to suicide.

You communicate with your raving, ranting, sometimes downright rude fans. You listen to us, and make decisions based on us. For that alone, I applaud you for as long as my hands aren't on a 360 controller playing Halo 3.

You brought me and my friends closer together. Loud drunken nights whilst pistol sniping each other on Blood Gulch. Screams of "FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, PUT DOWN THE -blam!- ROCKETS ALREADY!" on Battle Creek. And, of course, co-op campaign. We fought together amidst fuel rod cannon-wielding grunts, and died together in a pile.

As cliche as it sounds to admit this, but your games and the community you've brought together have completely impacted my life in no way any other developer\game could even dream of attempting.

Let's hear it for one more year.



[Edited on 09.27.2008 3:50 AM PDT]

  • 09.27.2008 12:44 AM PDT

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

well said battle magnum......

  • 09.27.2008 12:50 AM PDT

ok, I'm WAY to quiet on these forums......

For all the people that understand (like me) how Bungie operates, thanks for giving me something decent to read!

NOW for all the IDIOTS out there that THINK by demanding something from Bungie that they are OBVIOUSLY not ready to talk about will get them somewhere other than being flamed by the guys that understand bungie!

WTF! SERIOUSLY..... You guys are morons that obviously needed help to turn on your 360, and had to be taught how to change your adult diaper right? It must be that!?!?!?!?!?!? Bungie WILL release information AT THEIR discretion! Not yours! When the upper management says "Don't say anything" You either listen, or find new jobs! Your ALL obviously still WAY to ignorant to realize that or you wouldn't be TRYING to coax information out of Bungie employees with your own little NOT SO slick ways........

You all deserve to have a one week ban just for being morons, not just the game, but from the forums as well. Enough said on that matter, I'm tired of reading your whiny complaints about something you OBVIOUSLY know nothing about!

For the Morons out there that are whining about "being wrongly banned" I read one guys reply that made sense, all you other idiots "There should be a warning", "You should warn me in game before banning me" HELLO!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? You got a warning! Not just one, Bungie has been talking about Banhammer V2.0 for awhile now! And for the ones that supposedly "never get on the site to read updates" I call BS! For 2 reasons!

1. You got on to complain about being banned to people that don't give a crap.

2. THEY PUT A WARNING ABOUT THE BANHAMMER IN GAME! Ever since H3 came out, there have been those nice little hints in game when your searching for a game that WARN you about the Banhammer.

Your idiots for boosting, your idiots for feeling the need to be a "higher level" than other people, when your really not, you CHEATED to get there!!!!

You can flame me all you want to, I don't care. For a few reasons actually

1. I don't cheat/boost/mod
2. I play the game FOR FUN
3. I understand the way Bungie operates in relation to releasing information in small packets, normally with a long period of time in between them.

  • 09.27.2008 12:55 AM PDT

Damn well said Battle Magnum! Mine would have been that nice, but I was pissed lol

[Edited on 09.27.2008 12:59 AM PDT]

  • 09.27.2008 12:58 AM PDT

[/Temper Tantrum] Nothing bout the trailer? :( :(

  • 09.27.2008 1:15 AM PDT

Posted by: Achronos
I blame stosh.


Proud tester of the Halo 3 beta.

Great update! Only thing I could wish for now, is more info about the teaser trailer =P

  • 09.27.2008 1:16 AM PDT

I would have said something and applaued bungie for its great work and amzing game but everything i wanted to say Battle Magnum has already said. He says what we all think. Great community, great game. Well said Battle Magnum

  • 09.27.2008 1:23 AM PDT
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It's not a tumor!

Amen, Battle Magnum

  • 09.27.2008 1:34 AM PDT